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Thread ID: 53538 2005-01-20 10:38:00 weird boot up issues Tux (606) Press F1
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316109 2005-01-20 10:38:00 hi, running win xp prof, sp2, on an athlon 64 blah blah. anyways, when i boot up, it often comes to boot up, the screen (17" lcd) changes shades of black, i can then faintly see the windows xp startup screen (the one with the logo an dthe scrolling status bar), then it reboots itself, and asks if i want to go into safe mode, or boot normally, or go with the last known safe configuration, its really weird and annoying, so any help would be appreciated Tux (606)
316110 2005-01-20 21:47:00 so can it boot into safe mode?

what changes have you done to the system just before this started happening?
tweak'e (69)
316111 2005-01-20 22:51:00 yes it boots fine after it gets to the that black screen, with all the different boot options, i havent made any remarkable changes, its a brand new pc. only just set up (well i built it, and now im setting up my programs), thanks Tux (606)
316112 2005-01-20 23:18:00 have you turned off the automatic restart setting?

the odds are its crashing on startup and autorestarting. turn off the auto restart and it should produse an error message.
tweak'e (69)
316113 2005-01-21 07:15:00 would that be located in the bios, or in the control panel? Thanks Tux (606)
316114 2005-01-21 23:33:00 i htink i may have found the source of my head ache, some how, my ati radeon 9600xt 128mb Bravo has been installed twice, once as a pci and the second as agp, how would i go about disabling the pci version as i am sure that is what is causing the conflict
Thanks a heap in advance
Tux (606)
316115 2005-01-22 00:06:00 help? Tux (606)
316116 2005-01-22 00:10:00 If one card is internal/onboard and u put another videocard in an AGP/PCI slot, disable it somewhere in the BIOS (the onboard one). Speedy Gonzales (78)
316117 2005-01-22 09:54:00 ok, i have managed to disable the pci version so hopefully it has managed to fix itself Tux (606)
316118 2005-01-22 20:14:00 yup, i had this problem when i upgraded from intergrated graphics to a graphics card, i figured out that it was a driver clash, man i wish i knew drivercleaner existed before i done the reformat...... i also had to turn the intergrated video off in the bios and use agp Prescott (11)
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